The thing that is so extremely frustrating about so many people in this space is that they talk a lot of talk about cypherpunk ethos but they still have a bank account. They don’t actually use blockchains for money. They don’t on Nostr for posting, either. They still are on Twitter, and abandon these mediums as soon as they aren’t used for fanning their balls 24/7.

I have not had a bank account for over a fucking decade now. I am not allowed to have a bank account. All financial institutions simultaneously decided they would not do business with me. I posted various shutdown letters at the time. Then they suspended me from literally every social media service right at the same time, so I wasn’t even allowed to complain about it.

The people telling me that it’s okay to have custodial Lightning solutions, that I don’t need to worry about crypto being actual money, they will never need it. So they don’t actually care about it. They are rent seeking on the basis of selling out my future, because I am a living, breathing example of the urgent use cases of blockchains.

When they casually seek profit off of Bitcoin’s future, and yell at people for harshing the vibe because we are saying your VC bonfire is wasting time and resources that we urgently need spent on real solutions, I really want you to know that you are robbing my children of their future. Because they’re going to inherit nothing but tainted coins. When you make centralized, custodial posting services, you are putting your hand over my mouth and smothering me. Because governments have already all decided that me, my thoughts, and my money are unacceptable in the world.